Timothy J. Moore

Timothy J. Moore is John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his B.A. from Millersville University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, and he has taught at Harvard, Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Colorado, and the Ruhr Universität in Bochum, Germany. His publications include Artistry and Ideology: Livy’s Vocabulary of Virtue, The Theater of Plautus, Music in Roman Comedy, Roman Theatre, two edited volumes on Greek and Roman comedy, an online database of the meters of Roman Comedy, and articles on Greek and Roman music, theater, and literature, the teaching of Greek and Latin, American Musical Theater, and Japanese comedy. Current projects include a long-range project on musical theater in ancient Greece and Rome. He has received fellowships and grants from the American Academy in Rome, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.